Nursing home conversation:

Is that Myrtle? I thought she went to live with her daughter.

It didn’t work out.

Why? She was so excited since her kids never had time to visit her here.

She discovered something that broke her heart worse than being an afterthought.

What?

Being an obligation.

Cathy is a temporarily out of work bookkeeper, taking a little time off to play in the fields of words and exercise the other half of her brain.